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Freak Zone Playlist 2018-01-28 Stick In The Wheel

2280 days ago

Core News — “Contemporary folk outfit Stick In The Wheel compile a playlist including folk greats Peter Bellamy and Eliza Carthy plus original mixes by SITW guitarist Ian of Lisa Knapp and The English Acoustic Collective.” Freak Zone Playlist 2018-01-28 Stic... more info

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Gerry Diver: Speech Project – review

4434 days ago

Guardian Music — Purcell Room, LondonFor a brief moment it seemed that this adventurous marriage of technology and tradition was doomed from the start. Surrounded by five musicians playing fiddle, dulcimer, pipes and piano, Gerry Diver turned to the computer at the b... more info

Diver Christy Moore Damien Dempsey Shane MacGowan Lisa Knapp

Gerry Diver: The Speech Project – review

4467 days ago

Guardian Music — (One Fine Day)The idea is certainly original: take a series of interviews with well-known Irish musicians, and then mix short excerpts of speech with instrumental work that follows the rhythms of a spoken phrase. The interviewees include Christy Moor... more info

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The Great Folk Jukebox – review

4737 days ago

Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonOn 1 June 1951, the folklorist AL Lloyd organised an evening at St Pancras Town Hall in London, as a contribution to the Festival of Britain. The Singing Englishmen concert featured the Workers Music Association Choir and a... more info

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